The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-15 00:00:00

THE M ARKETS.--(T1-1 1 S DAY.) HUNGER RD MARKET. :iThere were good supplies to-day, and prices were scarcely nfider_e,at from those last Quoted. Fish cheaper. Turbot ss. 2 5 t '' , ;* to 21s. Soles 9d. to 3s. per pair. Cod ls. 6d. and f Mutton & Meat —The dull weather against trad( N . T . ee S t a e l e , tah r k et for e I, and Pork all as last quoted. The late .._ the season was well supplied, and prices much the as Uovent-garden. t4 B CITY FIS2 MARKET. Pair 4PPlieercss to.day were gord, and prices, if any thing, cheaper it,odaY•bsters Turb o t, ss. to 21s. ; Solcs, 6d. to 3 :d per 2 to Each to 10 9d. to . lOcih ; Whiting,2s 6d 3d. to 6d. each ; Haddock, a 4d. S uP HAY MARKETS. P r i e j es to-day goo , d, and the demand in proportion. 20s ; Shaw a' before. Hay 70s. to nos. ; Clover, 90s. to 1 , 3 25. to 38s. Per load. • Ilu tri SPIRIT MARKET. gliot qh. a nd Brandy are quiet, and prices the same as_ last_ thd 2. ',The stock of Rum is 12,792 puncheons and 1,0 .. 28 Geneva is rat higher, thd quotations being 2s. id. b e 10; qa rn S Pirits are 10s, 2d., and expected next week to , y , TALLOW MARKET. ;IN , 10 ., •-• t(). a, be obtaitiedAY yeas 553. 3d. to 555. 6d., and a steady busi. money is 11 ' 311 - i ?' ) lore m a sked by some holders, but can- Ire, Lend METAL MARKET. Priees-.'„:, Copper, and Tin, are in steady demand, s r e n t d , and igr"ered. Spelter is now quoted at 201. on the p • Is to arrive. Ther • COLONIAL MARKET. N o. ,„e is not much doing in this market just now b •public I eak n,,• _,' 0 -day we have only one public sale, correctlysi) and 11 1 ;io tha t of Colonial roduce, and that is of 70 casks a. 'l,,t4t,g43:f.British Plantation p Coffee, which was not of su ts bqo ,iiitude to affect the market at all. Prices are much 13 .9 re . sky from 925. to 128 s , according to quatity. Sug e ar L ier -.sell s , in about equa..l quantities to g:ocersand r .3 ,11,attinalPrie remain without alteration. Refined Sugar tas i s `ae - a l es 33B. for fine crushed, and 735. for Lumps o p ht a ndard,• . l ' •cr any business just now. •T pri va , Tea Is scarcely securin,,, . Ntalcd• ! contract a fair business is doing cf such Colonial k ik sa itl e , _ as are not high priced. ' For to-morrow we have. k i .,rrie 8 „, r, of 2,370 bales of Surat Cotton, 300 bales Madras, L iov e „'" 4iles B. P. and Bengal Coffce and Nutm.g g ,. 'arbad' o 44 d. Ging er ; 5,900 bags Mauritius Sugar, 100 . hhd „.., 1 .10 ,11 , e % and 116 bags Saltpetre. There are the chief. D E 41)'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) Il k t' 4l N ov. 14 Wind E. S. E. fresh.—Came fro m down n srra n t aai €l. and proceeded the British Tar, Fraser, for 4 1 , 41 : ; Orator, Terr e : for the Mauritius; William f, O l, for Jamaica 3', the Ar"°LTH, No 14 —Wind E. to S. E., fine.— Castle,ie Arrived 4te ani cenil, Heirth, " from . Christiania. Sailed her Majesty's A Vulcan on a cruise ill(eith:4f.reou•tn, Nov. 1 3.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Topaz, PcterF- K er gli. 111 Archangel- Jannie Stirling, from ‘ith,, Sailed the Thomas Harrison, ' Smith, for South St Aus -I,4l:mOrient, Wales f , r Sydney. ?Ar r . r , ° , l- 'r , n, N ov c dl d • 1 ' ' Wind E. N. E. to E., strong breezes. k l aa i • v e tile n or ; 37- L a renee, from New.oun an p ' llti dS te ' At34la fieu f es' Ma u rans. Sailed the Antoinette, I 'lt ' f °r th e /;"'. La . ._ N 4,001, Brazils. pevide, (ir o n '°v• 14.- 1 .k 4 •,?,r, for v s hi9), Mitchell, from S. E., B mo z d ; e l r ; ate s . h — er S id a a il n e , d the l 'O t i a , lir,,-: " 7 York ; Fr . anci f s e , r J h oh ra ns . ton, for Calcutta ; .A a G "wn, for Rio Janeiro; Ja n Brooks, Nicholson, -41 li o Ilayr a . to- ttfo.. , . Cceur de Lion, Robinson, for Demerara l, f or .;, niroadfoot, for B3mbay ; Thomas_LeemeinyW;illiam -453:10C tu!arbadoes; Higginson, Lee, for B John f0 4114 ;' 14 \P l eY, for Africa ; Fairfield, Abbott, for South Aus betil, filar y, Morton, for New Orleans ; Mary, Dobson, S, r , 1 0. r „tt 11 1 4 /41 • 0 N, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Dundee, IVlTeal k.`4l.o4-ti...as, Nov. 14 . —Arrived the Memnon, Law, Kig • k.. 10 1,, ,,, fl, Nov. 14 —Arrived the George, Walker, from tP 'lrtii e h.' Nev'l Brunswick ; West Hendon, Thomas, from NE,,,,, 1 - bt,l3`-eRT, Nov 13 A •ed the Bolivar, Harper, Quebec.. e r , t.e, • •-- rriv I,` 4 nta iki ' Nov." 13 .—Arrived the Eleanor, Potts, Queoe • k.. Pet ' "ev• 12 . —Arrived the Mangerton, Hughes, from f t Sh e el 'sburgh, 1 1(T . Nov 13 Arrived the Normanby, Stephenson, ~ eillel. ' 1 3.—Arrived bje'N' Nov 14 -,Arrived ' d the Elbe, Craig, and Penelope,_ , f ro ,. ...,_ 2 _-- rive h. G o ", ~ 1 4" rSt. Petersburg h; Bubina,. Munro, from Stettin. , p Q ath e ev- 14 . —Arrived the Leviathan, Crawford,_ . from i li :440,:, Johannes, Esberg, from Stockholm. to Trieste, it•gPandeci Palmyra, traindis !4•l3rinden Bay, and not rr e e x m peeted to be got off L t '"tat,,....,e4larging part of the cargo. Galway to er Nov. 11 --The Herald, Daly, t i ; 1 e4,1 3 ut ir.to Liscanner Bay this morning f , rem . through stress hoped she 4 1 ) * „ . •'r; and being a most unsafe berth, it 04, e o pl e to escape during the present lo m st od o e n ra t t i h s e e weather. Goodwin 114,,,ada on Nov. 14.--. A vessel was e b the tight of the 10th inst. ; fragments of the wreck wad e here to-day, consisting principally of riggin . E NI, , brok.o.,_, the latter is stamped " Brown, maker, Milford . il it `! r ee 1;,11 foremast, apparently of a schooner of about 120 Is % "Y fitted with a hoop for patent trusses and slings: g ot AN :Posed to have been either coal-laden, or in ballast. lti, ii,",, 4 P, Nov. 13.--The Gardener, Jackson, from ca h m e e nc e e i .1.) ()i lt - 'ea'e on the Cabot Bank, off Flushing, but 11l material damage. i.. 4 ' " e 4l tY _, b elight Anderson, from Charente, put into P e nz anc e, Aicks N s;d, &c., having been in contact with t ra n o 8. ' %hip • ' oTp ), e General .StdeaftiriomNaAvingtawteiropn this morning , s a t t ea fi m v ; it , iit Itit passageriabdonwi;earrrtv in 17 . hours. ft Antwerp one hour tefot.he "Belgian Packet, which 414 4; the Rainbow, did not arrive ti e ll more than three hours L e A „ RSIONS IN THE, "404'TAIN SCOTT'S 1114-til'Atxs OF RO 'DA AND G g It ' AN E AD X A C . 44 1, ti h ()41)1 `' att • N cf a book of trave i l u' s — . a T nd hi a s work work o p f o i s m se a s g s t a ' l 4 4 tr e",: ,, hi: s h it e a r t r a i o e m b a a . n a tic a Il u. episodes v, ill an r d en s d to e r r ies a co o n n t e ain o e f d t i h n e it, mostwe Itelit',tivteo boo.k°3lloT the s) ?Trculatin ie g v S top _,, w hich we particularly Among nre other The it i e lbr a a t r t y ention, Luis de Castro, '1`'43',..,.`g the Fairy's Bridge--Bias el Guerrillero , . 4.1 Of th e Knight of San Fernando—and tli ne Serrania. aßandita v \ Sh iti THE STRAND.—Two PERSONSBURNT. icrburh 1 of , tittb, . . , tse Adel,7 alter eight o'clock last _ _ No. 1, Dar r ;esp i a lP• b i was alarmed by the sudden outbr k e a a re m . t y o ue house of Mr. Rogers, O l ti l lra. ilik'site Be dford-street, and the alarmstreet, tl et pad in being observed . running out most was first kl,i Nw t : tat nes, and screaming ina ran to her assistance, of the house,heart-rending en with trolls persons immediatelyand eon the flames , %Vt'ill,r tgreat difficulty extinguished t, . l act ° the C haring - cross tle Beveratt. • d her child, During op k ti le il wnes mentione . and 11/ 4 elii 00 se, they found it den.,e ) I • filled withsmoke,berscre a c m e s . L ill es c s -ri g the first floor, they found the backrtowoom yearsall in f ~‘1,',.,t41,8u)'3,.t511.! l ight of which a female child, about . !Ind rosoitmoa,tion, ti A tt .‘e ti4ri u ,rved standing by the fire , pla_ce. An individual, hi Ned ii w e could not learn, rub k h e e r d ItwNvc,,t,r;seliag the child from into dreadful the I ) er:_' f01,', 1 , 4 ., , i7 to t , :e same hospital , when, on examination, hor t`l4 l ' t e• B' ,. t I . l _ t she Wll5 most extens fir v e e ni lV en bu t r ti n e t tialalmoeveser were I tiN, tl ally : iee exertions of the . bettO t eli,, lttl re i it "fim ed to the room in which they co i m ,k m e e fi n r c e e , d it t . h i e s tcl, haswhich was completely destroyed.ofire-place,elosek occasioned by a spark from th I,ll4.qt.Ysicontiguous to the bed. y, ENIA N.—On which b,,'„ry „ ? ,T TO MURDER A rOLIC , k,Ket, 6'get about twelve o'clock, ti, (I k d G d4ision was passing throng Vilk "uken fell ' fruffianly appearanFe intoner inten aks Holborn, he ob . 4, , ,), ow Cs ru the struggle he IsliChni e ,st passengers, when he took . him Lstody. , N a „I: uesPerate resistance, and dorm '4 l)j °t 'stst z i ar f rom his pocket and made ttizot'. 2,ke',..,'4110 gave an alarm, The latter wrested the during the efforts to cut t ittt. trot e `...f , to his assistance . which brought se another con h attempted to use i A %i h `. l ,et taz the fellow's grasp, w . ho . then managed to ta _ e t tt lat , ti °I. from his pocket, which e '°:: e 111.41 ' )-a s ,a tt ner the and station and taken to but - this was also taken from him, tv s i i , p ri - °..grgle he was securedker after ti.t44l:ll.l4ll4e3oehhniaJgolliiinlonfo, four r nd ot said ra t s h o a r t s h w e e l;d f k o t a u h e n e d d s . ra w z e o li re r e s gar de fill y 4n the effort to ris take. them from in imprisonment thtiej.),,, ditelaecerated. He was ye . sterday hi t in ak h e i n s to Hatton a 'se of C u d sentenced so six weeks' lit'lri i tt 1 k-;orrection. labourer, who died t?t4l,(l4csl was held last night at St. George's tii, t 't in, o t ! l tho body of Patrick Clarey,_ trai Nil ) e ° 0 clock on Saturday night, the deceased, of a 144 : 41 t i t tatt ° 1 ! on Tuesday. It appeared from the evidence tee 0 a t . t t t ° get into one of the waggons d iase his footing and lev„"khell e %e at Western Railway, forming paritnen ''t k stel Y a: s . n n e er the wheels went over missed his not travelling k tre,,t4' eause his death.. The train him in so starlet. A 444 got rate. tlaan two miles an hour , . and deceasel acid lnto th Nal D ew e waggon before it t Ilk - , 4te.l eath." Deodand l.s. t 4 '" '4 paLaY teeming, about ten o'clock , laco ktpeteresjr:Te_ti, residing at No. ,vtsiiitt4-411,71 : I ° , e i n w aliaorri frirndowKe g y 7 . , E . u t s r t e o e n t: p to b one of the Verdict, oagt Little Queen. New-road, porn Paddington lg She g,, Piek'r',,' 44(1 was ver knocked severely injured about the face. to a ''' A l ' a," 4 a u ti P L_ in e a stare o iby, and taken . Plip t Rid 0,,u.5, quently to her own residence. I tiki . 4 s I. 4id i e 1-Iree years of age, n_ . n,. Iti„ritberrlt ,in Cas tle -court, o . x or Oxford-market, d am ma l e A t , Arnold,r nwoass, so whose silnk . kr ti % th e t ° ea Tuesday evening, by t h e e; t e k l e o t tl s c k es e i igniting ed the 41 , ,, e ea„. ereporary absence of her mot i ~ kl NA • t VQ CI 'la g in the Middlesex Hospital, whither she had been -al -, 13 b of a conversation on I lls toot, I()Qs.---In the course lebone Police.office, that n it to,:illbjeet.l.),,ee yesterday at Mary . n suggested t th4 t 4 LQ 4 't IlYdrophohia, Mr. Rawlinso regulation to the effec Ik Perso,ssoo4 thing if there was a %I 't leek". keePirig dogs should be ffice mark, and the ;:etri,„ with collars he- ;the Q r.ne , Stamp - office LE " e °l t b "" •be strictly enforced. , cOmpelled to encircle , Itt'ef,,-14,4 ax s ould otherwise th,;44,„ , TIVE WISDOM.— Frotli th e N th; `") regulate the good order of . may be ga t, t'erl growth of crime, the following resultsd metro polis and n l a d v ‘to s the varl after eleven 141'"It.„--c.T,IF't tea an coffee must not be s p I intoxication ts 4 'et, ~,, i °gr ciaol-ee 3a water, and such like after on . e , , b a n a t to 04 TTI P and spits, there is no limit, so that " ur ing the vvhole 24 hours. Alik. ` t r' COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—This afternoon her Majesty took her accustomed airing in the P,:rk. The Queen rode on horseback, and was attended by the Baroness Lehten, Hon. Colonel and Miss Cavendish, Lady T. Dighy, Mr. Cowper, the Marqui s C on yn g h am , Viscount Melbourne, Lord Fingall, and Sir George and Miss Quentin. ' The following distinguished visitors arrived at the Castle to-day :—Lord and Lady Lansdowne, Lord Holland, Sir H. Wheatley, and Colonel and Isabella Wemyss. Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Horuby, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. The meeting of the Cabinet Council will not take place be fore Monday or Tuesday next. Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister, and General Alava, the Spanish Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Fo reign Office. Lord Palmerston transacted business yesterday at the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer's office. The Austrian Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. The Austrian, Neapolitan, Turkish, and Russian Ambassa dors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, transacted business yes terday at ti e Colonial Gffice. The Agent for the Cape of Good Elope transacted business yesterday in Downing-street. A deputation, including. Mr. Irving, Mr. Patrick Stewart, and Mr. Colvile, transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from Downing-street for Lord Melbourne at Windsor. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from Downing-street for Lord Glenelg at Leamington. Despatches, dated the sth inst., were received yesterday at the Foreign Department from Sir George Villiers, the British Ambassador at Madrid. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign Department for the British Ambassadors resident at the Courts of Bavaria and Rome. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign Department for the British Ministers at the Courts of Brussels and the Hague. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Sandys in Curzon -street, from his scat Omhersley Court; the Marquis of Salisbury in Arlington-street, from his seat Hatfield House, Herts ; Viscount Jocelyn at Lord Powerscourt's residence in Dover-street, from Paris; Sir Joseph Fuller in Bryanston-square, from his seat High Grove, near Pinner, Middlesex; Col. Rolt, from Cheltenham; Wm. Money, Esq., at his house in Hanover-street, Hanover-square, from a tour. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Newburgh, for Hindon Hall, Sussex ; Captain Hamilton, for Paris; Viscount Canterbury and suite, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Paris ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Booth Grey, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for ditto; Major and Mrs. Wood, for ditto ; Captai Ellis, 9th Lancers, from the Royal Hotel, on a tour ; Sir Charles Blunt, M. P.,. for Heathfield Park, near Lewes, Sussex ; Lord and Lady Bra bazon, on a tour in Italy ; Lady Sampson and family, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; the Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, from Hanover-square, for Leamington, Warwickshire; Mr. and Mrs. Clayton, from Portman-square, for Manley Hall, Staffordshire ; Mr. Ferrand, from Mivart's Hotel, for his seat in Yorkshire ; the Earl of Eglintoun and Charles Lamb, Esq., from the Clarendon Hotel, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Fraser, from the Pulteney Hotel, on a tour ; the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, from Downing-street, for Hastings; the Marquis of Worcester, from Arlington-street, for Eton ; Count Bathyany, from Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, for Mel ton Mowbray ; Prince Wissenski, from ditto, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Hubrt de Burgh, from ditto, for Leamington Spa ; the Marchioness of Salisbury, from Arlington-street, for Brighton ; Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., and Mrs. Smith, from Belgravo-square, for Worthing ; the Hon. C. South well, for Sussex ; Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, from Bryanston-square, for Brighton. CHANGES, The Hon. Captain and the Hon. Mr. Ryder Burton, at Brizhton, from their seat in Kent; Lady Le Poer French, at Woodhouse, near Loughborough, from Cheltenham ; the Countess of Winterton and Lady Charlotte Turner, at Bath, from their seat, Shillinglee Park, Sussex; Sir Edward Mos tyn, Bart„ and Lady Mostyn, at Leamington Spa, from their seat, Falacre, in Flintshire ; the Hon. George Byng, M. P., at Brighton, from his seflt, Wrotham Park, Herts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester and Lady Cecilia Paulet are still residing at Margate, but are expected in a few days at the town mansion in Cavendish square. _ _ The Duke of Norfolk has left town on a tour. His Grace is expected in town again about the end of the month. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield left town yes terday for their seat, Shugborough Park, Staffordshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lord Holland left town yesterday on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. Hope has left Mansfield-street on a visit to Lord and Lady Beresford, at Betsworth Park, Kent. Mr. E. St. John Mildmay left town yesterday for Brighton. Sir Thomas and Lady Munro have arrived at Far. rance's Hotel, from Adderly Hall, Drayton, Shropshire. The Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson is staying at Manchester. Lord and Lady Methuen, and Sir John Cam Hob= house, are among the late arrivals for the winter at Torquay. Clarence House, which has been undergoing a course of embellishment and repair, is now complete in it:im provements. The edifice has been painted stone-colour to correspond with the Duke of Sutherland's mansion. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta will return to Clarence House from Brighton the second week in January. His Highness ,the Prince of Oude left town on Monday fir Dover, en route to the Continent. His Highness will not be absent more than a month. His Excellency Reschid Pacha and suite are not expected in town from Paris until Monday or Tuesday next. Sarim Effendi will not leave the seat of the embassy, in Sus sex-place, for Constantinople, until the middle of the ensuing month. The Earl of Sefton was sufficiently recovered yes terday to take an airing in a carriage and four in the Regent's Park, accompanied by the Countess. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch intend to take an extensive retinue with them to Naples, where their Graces, who will be accompanied by Viscount Emlyn, son of Earl Cawdor, intend to winter. The object of the Duke and Duchess in visiting Italy is the hope of restoring to health their eldest son, the Earl of Dalkeith. The latest accounts received at the residence of the Right Honourable Cutlar Fergusson, in Porttnan•square, leave no hopes of his ultimate recovery. The opinion of the Parisian physicians, by whom he is attended, we understand, is that the Right Honourable Gentleman may linger some time longer; but no expectation is entertained that he will be able to return to England. Some of the domestics who atttended the Judge-Advocate-General to Paris have ar rived in town. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A drama in two acts, called the Royal Oak, was last night performed at this theatre. The piece is not a new one, as it was brought out, we believe, some years ago at the Haymarket Theatre. The scene is laid, as the title of the piece denotes, after the battle of Worcester, when Charles is closely pursued by his enemies, and there is, of course, no lack of " hair-breadth 'scapes ;" lint the piece is wanting in interest, and there is an absence of that tact in its construction, so essential to insure success. Two songs, introduced by Miss Rainsforth--" Rest, warrior, rest," and " Over the water to Charlie"—were mainly instru mental in carrying the piece on smoothly to the conclusion. Hisses, however, occasionally burst forth ; and on the termi nation there were strong symptoms of disapprobation. Some judicious curtailment might do it service ; but we doubt much if any alteration can make the Royal Oak attractive. A Carrickmacross correspondent informs us that, through the exertions of our very active and efficient officer of police, Thomas R. Barry, Esq., a notorious gang of thir teen robbers (who have been for the last twenty years com mitting the most daring robberies of cattle, sheep, pigs, fowl, butter, &c., in the counties of Cavan, Louth, Meath, Armagh, and Monaghan), have been arrested and committed to jail.— Dublin Packet. Two men named Western and Pearse were brought before the Magistrates, charged with undermining a new house building in Exeter, and nearly destroying it. Western is a foreman, and Pearse a stonemason ; there had been several pieces of money deposited in the corner-stone of the house, and the prisoners had dug under the foundation, taken out the stone, and, robbing it of the money, had replaced it, greatly to the injury of the building. The Magistrates fined them, under the Wilful Damage Act, eight pounds and costs, or three months' imprisonment.—Exeter Post. Last evening an inquest was held at the Cock and Castle public-house, Kingsland, on the body of Sarah Ward, aged fifty-five years, who had terminated her exist ence b y hanging herself. From the evidence it appeared that the de ceased had been servant and housekeeper to Mr. Pierson, a retired merchant of considerable property, residing at Kings_ land, and, owing to the bodi l y infirmities under wh ich her master had laboured, and his in consequence being unable to look after her, she for some considerable time past gave way to habits of intoxication. A respectable female had lately been placed in the house, and from the keys of the premises being placed in her hands, the irregularity of the deceased was con siderably checked, and her manner became a good deal al tered. On Saturday week she took up a carving-knife, and said she would stab herself through the body with it, as she felt satisfied she would be hanged some time or other. On the following Friday Mr. Pierson died, and on Sunday morn. ing last the deceased was found suspended by a cord from the roof of her bed, quite dead and cold. Mr. Pierson, son to the late master of the deceased, said he had no doubt whatever the deceased had been in the habit of plundering his late father of property of every description, and that, having some qualms of conscience on the subject, that this, together with the _fear of the discovery of her conduct at the death of her master, and being suddenly deprived of her usual quantity of drink. combin e d to d erange he r m i n d, an d l e d to h er fi na l act of self-destruction. Tho jury concurred in this opinion, and returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." LOAN COMPANIES, TO THE EDITOP OP THE SUN. San—My attention having recently been drawn to an article in your Journal in favour of a Life Assurance Com pany, upon a new and better principle than any hitherto established, I could not but be struck with the project that followed of another, which I have long considered a g►aod desideratum in this country. I allude to a ".Loan" Com pany first set on foot with a capital of half a million ster ling, and to be covered by a Royal charter. None but those who have experienced it can form an 3 idea of the difficulty there is for men of the first character and respectability to obtain advances of money when re quired, owing to the fastidious pertinacity with which hankers and capitalists confine their transactions to particu lar kinds of securities only. Thus it often happens that men, whose property is locked up in foreign bonds to a great amount (and convertible into cash in the market at half an hour's notice), cannot raise a single shilling upon them, and thus are compelled, when pressed, to dispose of them at an enormous sacrifice ; or, what is much worse, to throw themselves into the hands of those sharks of advertising money lenders who infest this metropolis. Others again are perfectly free from debt, but have not the power to mortgage their estates, which may be entailed, and numbers there are who have only a life-interest in their incomes. Indeed, it is well known that first-rate bankers will not ad vance even upon French Rentes, Dutch, or Russian Stocks, though inuchabove par. To obviate thesedifficulties nothing can be more deserving of public support than the proposed Company, and which, under proper and liberal man 'ge ment, must yield immense profits to the Directors and Shareholders. They should be ready to advance to all who need it, without confining themselves to this or that kind of security, provided only it be adequate to the risk, and cal culated accordingly. lam sure it would be a great moral benefit, and save from embarrassment, and not unfrequentl3 total ruin, numbers of nobility and gentry whose estates are thus circumstanced. They should be required to insure their lives, and a fair and moderate interast be Lmanded of them for the accommodation rendered. I believe that such institutions prevail on the Continent, and also in the United States of America, and if so, surely ireat commercial country they must, be more parti cularly needed. The Bank of England is of no use to any but great mer chants, and besides, will not lend a less sum than 2,000/., which few private individuals want. Your most obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. London, Nov. 9, 1838 SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL. This great Society last - night commenced its performance for the season by giving the whole of the oratorio of Samson —n thing which had not been done in the memory of the pre sent generation, nor, indeed, we believe, since the days of Handel himself. ,To revive the works of " the mighty mas ter" in their entire state, and thus to enable the public to con template the grandeur of their structure, and the beauty an d symmetry of their proportions, is a double undertaking, for which this Society deserves the gratitude of every real lover of music, even though the attempt may sometimes not be entirely successful. To perform this oratorio is a more arduous task than some of those:which the Society has successfully accomplished Its forte lies in the performance of choruses ; and some of those oratorios, of which choruses form the principal feature, have been produced at Exeter-hall in a manner, which we are inclined to believe has hardly ever been surpassed. Sampson contains several choruses of the most sublime description, particularly—" 0 first created beans," " Then round about the starry throne," and " Fix'd in his everlasting seat;" and these were given last night with great precision and magnificent effect. But Sampson possesses more of a dramatic character than any other oratorio that we are acquainted with, and consists of a series of scenes carried on is recitatives and airs of a highly impassioned character, requiring an energy, variety, and depth of expression, which the solo performers of last night were unable to impart to them. The recitatives, instead of being de claimed with the force and clearness, and almost the ra pidity of spoken language, were drawled out in a kind of psalmody, which reminded us of the descriptions of the old French school of the days of Lull' ; awl their intoler able tediousness was not relieved by the airs, which, though smoothly and chastely sung, lacked animation and warmth. The singers seemed to think that, because Samson is an oratorio as well as The 2lffssiah, it requires the same stjle of performance ; but the human passions which form the subject of the one piece must be expressed very differently from the sublime contemplation and deep devotion which characterise the other. The generil effect of the performance, therefore, notwithstanding its excellence in some particulars, was heavy • but we trust that a further study of this great work will lead to a more complete development of its beauties. The hall, as is usual, was crowded. Two thousand per sons at least mutt have been present. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1838. CHORAL_ II ARMONIC SOCIETY. Symptoms of the near approaCh of the musical season evinced themselves on Tuesday evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms, in a concert given by the above Society to their friends and patrons. The room, although by no means crowded, exhi bited a fair amount of highly respectable company, amongst whom we observed many leading amateurs. The band and chorus, principally composed of members of the Society, the former aided by professional gentlemen of ability, did ample justice to several well-known and favourite compositions, viz.: —Mozart's Symphony, ;To 1 ; Auber's overture to Masaniello ; a chorus of Handel ; and two chorusses from Masaniello. In these pieces the Society evinced a most decided improvement, the symphony was played with great correctness, and the overture went off with such spirit as to produce an enthusiastic and unanimous encore. Miss Birch was the prima donna of the evening, and gave Donizetti's Cavatina, " Regnava nel silenzio" and variations on " Cease your funning," in exqui site style. Mr. Leffler and Mr. NV. A. King also sang seve ral pieces in a very satisfactory style. The remaining vo. calists were Miss Byfield and Miss Dolby. The band was led by Mr. Dando, and Mr. Holderness officiated as conductor. We have only room to add that the Hanover-square. Rooms have been newly painted, the mouldings newly gilt, &c., and that the whole has a most chaste and brilliant cffeet. The work, however, has been so recently performed, that the odour of the paint is still somewhat offensive to those amongst the auditory who may not happen to be endowed with strong nerves. FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.---On Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, a fire broke out % at the house of Mr. Cole, architect and surveyor, No. 10, White Conduit -street, Liverpool-road, Islington. The fire originated in the bed room on the second floor, and was caused by the negl;genee of a female domestic. For some time past a fine little, boy, son of the owner of the house, bad been indisposed and con fined to his bed in the room mentioned. The servant, a short time before the fire took place, went up stairs to attend the little sufferer, but having occasion to come down again she in cautiously left a lighted candle on a dressing table close to the bed side. The bed furniture, in consequenc:. of the proxi mity of the candle, took fire, and the whole room was speedily in a blaze. A young man, named John Gray, passing through the street at the time, perceived the unusual glare in the room, and immediately knocked at the door, and gave the alarm. The female portion of the family were at home, and the young man perceiving their consternation, and being in formed that there was a child in the room, rushed up stairs, and snatched, as speedily as he could, he child from the flames in which it was enveloped. Unfortunately relief came too late, for the poor child was so severely burned that it was deemed advisable to convey it to St. Bartholomew's Hos . pital, before arriving at which, however, life was found to be ex tinct. By the exertions of the neighbours the fire was pre vented from extending itself beyond the room in which it ori ginated, and on the arrival of several engines its further pro gress was effectually stayed. An inquest was held yesterdny afternoon on the body, when the Jury, after speaking in the highest terms of the praiseworthy conduct of the witness Gray, returned a verdict of—Accidental Death. ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—A young man, named Littleton, was convicted at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, of having assaulted two police constables in the exe cution of their duty. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to find securities for his future good be haviour. On Monday last the Rev. William George Max well, of Twyning House, Gloucester, whilst shooting in Har bour Wood, on his own domain, and getting over a fence, his gun, the muzzle of which he held in his hand, accidentally went off, and he received the whole of the charge in his right arm, shattering the bones and tearing away all the muscles on the inside as far- as the elbow. The gamekeeper and another servant, who were in the wood at the time, hearing him call, ran to his aid, and carefully conveyed him home. Surgical assistance was immediately obtained from Tewkesbury, and an amputation was skilfully performed as soon as possible ; but the effusion of blood had been so great previous to the opera tion, that, notwithstanding the most active stimulants were hou A rs b a o f u te t rs t r w ar e d l s v . e -- o q e l l o o u c e k este o r ii Jo u rnal. Nionday administered, he sunk and died from exhaustion within three sergeant Cole, G 1 7, was going his rounds, he perceived a " poison" was found upon her, respectably attired woman, writhing apparenty in great pain, on the door of a house in Shoreditch. On questioning her night, as she told him she had taken poison, and a paper marked mostaar t r. eb dangerousc removal eaann, ews,a sc t fol found ur t s hktnaedt state. The house of Mr. Robertson, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, B d who, after administering a hasty antidote, ordered her imme diate which he conveyed her to t d i o u n n a , t h e e language, motives of her mystery. ilwe r sc deadlyu for a n dw hospital, p icp A e i rhrtr. valedictory pocket. c w x kh:hi Dixon, ae of she lettert e h at e P sab sa l i i n bed e a , John Benbow, Esq., is the new M Ben bow is one of those respectable of heartless vituperation citizens against whom party has unceasingly directed her shafts, so far from serving any cause having the humblest scur rilous abuse. The Tories of this city dipped in the most ayor A d l et r e . "n ß i e n n a-- ,db3a,smeaayn learnand that a the uul pro mulgationivis, vulgar f o respectability, must inevitably- rebound cum ulative force against the party who can descend to the d such use ignoble instruments.—Herlford re ?nes, isith pretensions DUBLIN-TUESDAY. (FRONI OUR:OWN CO,RRESPONLIENf.) " Guy Earl of Warwick, and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack,'Would please me more." COVV PER. A good story is, no doubt, very pleasant in a newspaper, if it were ready cut and dry atjaand, and one of a slenderly in ventive genius could dish it up to his satisfaction. But not taleng moreover,of fiction, t being y o gifted d w e i r t s h f a maycu l ti notes rc o of s h h e a k n i n i d m , p a r n o d h a f h e l a e r i r shall rather contradict than tell new stories of the state of Ireland. In the first place, there la. no grounds whatever for believing that Lord Morpeth's absege for a few days from Ireland has anything to do with a med., - , ation of the Cabinet. The rumours diet have been for sc.tne t afloat, of his Lordship's exchanging the Chi e f Secretaryshipthis Government for a seat in the Cabinet are contradicted by some well informed persons, who say, the greatest services that can be rendered to the State at this juncture, are connected with the tranquillity and good management of this part of the empire. And a nobleman who gas distinguished himself as Lord Morpeth has done during the last four Sessions of Parliament, in sustaining the policy of the executive, as regards this country, in the House of Commons, cannot yet be spared from the important situation which he fills here. Equally untrue is it, as reported by the Dublin Tory papers, and copied by some of the Liberals, that Otis private Secretary, Norman MacDonald , Esq. is a pp ointed Chief Clerk of the Privy Council. That situation, vacant )3 , the death of the late Mr. M.Kay, is likely to be conferred epon an intelligent gentleman not so well known to the .mblie as Mr. MacDonald. Indeed it is not at all probable hat the latter, who has discharged very efficiently, as I tm informed, for the last three years, the duties of an office once filled, I believe, by Addison —certainly by Burke, in the , !ornmencement of his political career—would accept a place less honourable, and of no great emolument. But I mention he rumour as part of the tactique adopted for some time past in this country by the Tory scribes, to keep up the spirits of 'heir party. The absence of Lord Morpeth, and the vacancy tfluded to, were seized upon as a plausible pretext for insinu- Ltieg something like a change or break-up of the Irish Government, by thus providing for one of its attaches; and accordingly, some of the employes of the Haddington Govern ment offered wagers yesterday, in the Hall of the Four Courts, that a ant nge faviiurable to themselves was contem ,;lated. I have already told you that every proceeding and every incident in the least affecting Lord Normanby's Govern ment is caught at, and, if possible, wrested to the purpose of making the faction hope they may survive it. In fact, there is a perfect understanding between the managers of the Conservative Press in Ireland and the hereditary ?lace-hunters, not under promise of having their wishes complied wi:h, to work upon public opinion as much as hey can by circulating reports of this kind. In addition to this, they have adopted a plan of censuring the public appoint ments, and pointing out individuals of the Liberal party more deserving than those selected by , Government. The insidi ousness of this last ruse is not seen through by several supposed friends of the Liberal cause, who have suffered themselves o become the dupes of i From all the accounts I have heard to-day, there appears to be no grounds for the report of six persons killed in a Tithe affray near Cashel, on Friday last. That such an unfortunate ind melancholy occurrence may have taken place is not impro bable, much less impossible, considering the continued hostile feelings to tithes ; but the prevailing opinion amongst all but the bloody Orange enemy is, that the report must be tgeorretsahsteiloy soildn dictates ofct ht gg aaot r tue a rst v i a ol ne t fa i in d ae tucrTheremunicipal is one fact, however, not to be concealed, and it is thin :— Unfortunately there exists amongst a large portion of the poorer classes in this country, an im wsomhueary latter , be sustenances violateday they,in under prescribeso obedience e c d e i r e t nain c e 'he el a la w. a s The control and limitaiion, and we ought not to be ejected there from against our will, without some provision for the cravings of nature. Fe w o f t h e peasantry act w i c k e dl y upon t h ese no tions ahatconsequencea lel o ny f t t. t h h e e lpt ‘ e ' rw e p l ei e l tl a r r a i rt n eo g qr - us oi they e " ya a ; rime actual malefactors belief, time lions ; but the h orr ibl e d ee d s t h at have b een perpetrate d f rom ;how that too ma n y o f t h em enterta i n them, and are deluded by s a y p r s e o t e tc : l e o r t . hound by any moral law to a ss i s t i n d e t ect i ng or b r i ng i ng t h e and influence in aid of an enlightened Government, greater than any hitherto exercised in this respect even by Lord Nor manhy, to eradicate such sentiments from the minds of some members of a community that it must be confessed has not been always governed by equal laws. The Catholic Clergy ,hould be appealed to, and enlisted in this service. Of this more hereafter. IRELAND. TITHE CONFLICT.—DINNER IN CORK.—MR. ()TON NE LL.—REPE A L.—The Irish Papers, received in London by this day's post, contain but little intelligence that is either interesting or important. With regard to the ru moured conflict noticed by us yesterday, the scene of which it will be recollected was laid in Sollibead, the truth or fahcbood of the rumour still remains involved in doubt—at least nothing certain and authentic was kno vn about it in Dublin last Tuesday evening. The Tipperary Free Press of Saturday, simply states that a report has reached its office of " a tithe sale on yesterday, at Solihead, on the bor ders of this county and the county of Limerick, a fracas took place, and that six men were shot." A statement, too, to the same effect we see is copied into the Cork Reporter, but the Post, is " almost certain that no such affray has taken place." There was last Saturday evening a public dinner at Cork, given by the " Trades Political Union" on the occasion of the openir * , of the " Hall of the People" to their Represen tative and President, Mr. Beamish. Mr. O'Connell was there, and made two speeches : from his last we extract som e detached passages. On his health having been drunk. Mr. O'Coreseee said—Perhaps the best way to return thanks in a speech, is by giving you a toast, that is—" Old Ireland, equal to England in her Rights, or again a Nation." —(Loud cheers.) Didn't I know the way to deal with 3ou ? —( Laughter.) This reminds me of what a daughter of mine Once s a id—she is a dear little thing, and read me a lesson, which I will repeat to you. Upon one of those occasions that a med a l was struck off, with a portrait of me, in which I was put down as a bluff -visaged fellow, with a sort of Henry the Eighth face—the child, in seeing the medal, recognised no is the object of all my temporal hopes vourneen " was inscribe d, she exclaimed, " that ' s like m y likeness, but turning it on atrbpelaoutahe and other side cheers ewher f e or " some Erin p m apa e a n t t . a ) n y M r rate." e.' country( G and expectat i ons , and were Ito die to-morrow, my epitaph should he formed from my political alternative for many y ears —with the blessing of God and the assistance of the people we must have an equality with English rights, or Ireland must be again a nation.—(Cheering) Of the two, however, I and ar th e ir i suspect I would choosethe latter.—( Laughter.) Lik e t h e children, I prefer the bi gg er half. And if En g land do not giie us those rights to which we are entitled, wh y should thy—( n w o o t ra im t pinaetinennst_ly hbyurtshtea h b a o s n e d s a t g r e re th ac a h t e w ry a — s (fitirrgeaerd, ohneaur)sty ley the bloodiest cruelt y —the most direct perfidy—( Hear, Neittler foo t n o hear)--the most fright f ulvvi,at i . sthedemoralizationtitle-deed ldd n -e that o h y ever which Irelandwasprae- t ised.--( Cheers.) is extinction held in soufbj ourug. a name.ion Blood, tyranny, tre a chery,shall stir in hostile violence; you have the more power un. My plan of resistance is simple—the con of moral energy. armed, when in that warfare where you resist with the wea p ons ception of it deman ds no talent—it is distinctly and briefly this —Give me two mi llions o f Precursors I The prospects of the Pr ecursor Society are brightening. w e had cot the one-fiftieth of the number in the Catholic Asso ciation in the north, that we have amongst the Precur sors ; and all this in spite of Sharman Crawford, w h o takes a pleasure in abusing me. He has charged me with an intention of a dangerous and offensive nature ; he has charged me with a desire to transfer the revenues of the Established Church to the Catholic Clergy. I think they are eery well as they are; would they be better by being. hke Parson Ryder of- Ratheormack ? ( Shouts.) I t hi nk ,:or. • Would they rise with such alacrity as they do now, oho f e ed continu etithes. t o If f e a a any y they one from their port, or sh err y , or claret, to attend the call of sickness in the abode o f destitution? W o ul d they quit their sumptuous boards to enter the habitation of fever and mephetic d ar e e e , 'a3'? want fat the parsons not the C atholic asked me, will you give them the Church revenues ?—I an swer—" No, I thank I Id' ho to on you, wou t spoil them." Two mil lions of Precursors I am sure to have; and I expect four mil lions. We must also have a f un d t o d e f en d the registry, and support the poor man who • may wish to renew his registration. What I say here is no idle declamation; things, and I cry shame on the Cork trades if they do not work; will you let a small faction of___ England controul and keep you down? Next sessio n , I will not rei . nee . matters.— ( Loud cries of " Hear, hear. ) But the combination of Eng lish bigotry and ho s tilit y must b e met b y usu be defeated by not mere hundred s , b ut b y thousands o s f — m Irishmen, t resolved on obtaining their rights . Shall we submit to any inferiority of treatment —any inequality of law? No. I cannot recall one occasion, nor compare one feeling I ever had on all the most soul-stirring subjects with the emotion I feel when rain ins the animating cry of Repeal. --( Loud and protracted cheer ing.) The cry shall reach from Cape Clear to the Giant's Causeway—from the Hill of Howth to the wilds of Conne mara, unless we obtain our rights, arid the man who will not jojoin us vehemently an d heartily is unfaithful to himself—is base to this country—(G r eat cheering.) We subjoin an extract or two from the new Dublin Paper, and from some of the other Irish Papers. RAILWAY.—.It is to us a very gratif)ing circumstance to find, and we announce the fact with no ordinary pleasure, that the British Directors and Shareholders of the Great Western Railroad to Athlone, have determined to proceed resolutely with their bill, and have therefore given norice to that effect in the Gazette.—Dublin Monitor. APPROPRIATION CLAUSE, —Well, we had Mr. O'Connell at the dinner at Thudes, abusing the Appropriation Clause. That the thing was never aught but a vain and empty delu sion,'was from the beginning the opinion of every disinterested person of the least understanding; but then it served its turn, and the Appropriation Clause should not now be kicked out of doors, like an old and useless servant who has become unable to perform further labour.—lbid. LORD BROUGIIAM.—Lord Brougham certainly gave the trimming Ministry, during the last session, anything but peace or comfort. Indeed he so tortured the unprincipled set at one time, that we were half afraid Lord John Rus.ell would have flown for protection into the arms of Sir Robert Peel, The fault was not Lord John's that a coalition Administration was not formed, nor will the future formation of such an Once, we prognosticate, be opposed by the Ministerial leader of the Rouse of Commons. With very great obstinacy the Minis terial prints are displaying a wriggling uneasiness it the brisk ness and vivacity of Lord Brougham, which is indicatiie of the feelings of their masters. —lbid. MEM& OF PARLiAgENt. The Dublin Evening Post says, " Our London correspondent, whose information for two or three years past has been found so generally accurate, writes thus " Lot4boN, F RIDAY E vE NIN D ,,Thcre have been rumours that Parliament would meet before Chrl -^.. and the Globe has stated the middle of January as the time for r I think I may inform you, with some degree of certainty, that Parliament will not be called together fur the despatch of busi ness earlier than the end of January or the beginning of February—in fact, about the usual time. A Cabinet Council will be held next week, when the matter will be finally ar ranged. " The Ministry are quite firm. Unless you live very long, I think I am safe in calculating that you will never again see a Tory Ministry. This now begins to be the settled opinion of the sensible Tories themselves. Changes there will be —but none of them are at all likely to lead to the restoration. of Toryism. Their day is gone. KERRY ANTI-TITHE COUNTY MEETlN'O.—Pursuant to re quisition, calling on John O'Connell, Esq., High Sheriff of the County, to convene a meeting of his bailiwick, for the purpose of petitioning- Parliament " for the total Abolition of Tithes in Ireland, for A complete measure of Corporate Re form, and for the introduction of the mode of voting by Ballot for Members to serve in Parliament," a numerous.antt highly respectable meeting took place at the County Court-boost', Tralee, on Monday last. At half-past one o'clock the Libe rator made his appearance, and was hailed, with the most deafening shouts, when John O'Connell, Esq., High Sheriff, was unanimously called to the i . Chair, and Mr. Stephen Greene was appointed Seci-etart.—Waterford Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell attended, all denounced the tithe sfstem with his wonted force and eloquence. The Liberator leaves Youghal this morning (Tuesday), at an early hour, and breakfasts at Dungarvan, thence he will proceed to Kilrnacthomas, where his arrival is expected about ten o'clock, and wEere he will be met by the stirring men of Carrick. From Kilmactbomas be: pursues his journey to Waterford, and he , will enter in public triumph 04 ,t 1 7 .08 In tacta, about one o'clock, r as. Preparations On a magnificent scale have been alieliay mw?e tO greet the champion of Irish liberties ; it is hoped that every man will be at his post.-- Waterford Chronicle. lIIESNE PROCESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—By your Paper of Friday, I see you notice the ob servations of two Correspondents, who became so in conse quence of my letter some ten days since. The substance of the opinions which, it appears to me, these two correspondents wish to instil in the public mind is, that the late law of arrest was bad, but that the present is worse ; this opinion I will com bat. The question of arrest for debt may be regarded in two ways ; first, as one of morality, humanity, and public policy; and, secondly, as one of a pecuniary nature. Keeping these two points in view, I will observe that, under the late system, perjury for the purposes of revenge, fraud, or extortion, were not unfrcquently resorted to ; and it cannot be denied but that hundreds have been imprisoned on these accounts who did not owe their plaintiff a farthing. Again, arrest has often taken place where a plaintiff has not had any cause of action, but only supposed he had, and under a mistaken apprehensionhas sworn to a debt. What have been the consequences to many a defendant? By his impri sonment his pecuniary resources have been cut off, and he has been prevented giving that personal attention to the action, which a fair defence required. and consequently because he bad, by the oath of his plaintiff, been cut off from money and deprived of his time, or rather obliged to waste it within four walls, he has been cast in an action, which he ought to have won, The records of our courts of justice show thousands of instances in which plaintiff's on their oaths have affirmed to debts, which juries, acting also on their oaths, have declared not to have been owing. Many honest debtors have been imprisoned by some ill natured, hasty, or ill-judging creditor, arid their property destroyed ; whereas had they been left at large, and only urged on by proceedings, without arrest, they would even tually have paid their debts. This class of creditors, it is be lieved, have frequently injured themselves in a pecuniary point of view ; by the arrest they have lost their debts, and had to pay their lawyers. These creditors must on reflection say the present live prevents their doing themselves an injury. Again, it has been found in practice, that usurers—those who have been most urgent in persuading young gentlemen and tradesmen to give extravagant orders, charging them ex• travagant prices by way of insurance—have always been found among the foremost to take harsh proceedings at law; pro bably, reasoning thus, if my debtor is fool enough to get into my debt in this way, he will with somebody else, and it will be better to strike him first. The most relentless creditors an unfortunate tradesman finds in adversity, are generally those who most imposed upon him in prosperity. There are also a class of men who have arrested debtors, but who would never have so acted had they considered the matter ; but leaving such cases to the management of a junior partner, a confidential clerk, or to an active traveler (par excellence a persevering young man, that is a bothering young man) cr what is worse to a lawyer, they have made an affidavit, as a matter• of form, and their customer has been arrested. A tale is related of a wealthy partner of a house, when at his country seat, subscribing towards the relief of a poor debtor, expressing his wonder at the hard-heartedness of the creditors, when the creditors were actually the house in which he was a partner. It is a common proverb, that no man ought to be a judge in his own cause; but a plaintiff having the power of imprison ment in his own hands was judge, jury, and executioner. And what has been the operation of imprisonment on the debtors in n moral point of view ; they have been ruined, and thousands have gone into prison with minds disposed to act rightly, who have left it reckless and improvident, very cun ning kind of gentlemen. Having spoken upon the old law, I will proceed upon what is the new law under three heads, viz., the benefits it gives to debtors, the penalties it imposes on them, and the benefits it gives to creditors. By the present law the po•.ver of arrest, at the mere will of a creditor, is in all cases taken away ; and, when exercised, it must be after an action commenced, and upon the order of a Judge, who must he satisfied that a debt is due, and that the defendant is about to leave England. Such an order will not hang over a defendant's head for an 'indefinite time, for the judge will order within what time the writ shall issue, and within one month after its issuing, the defendant must be arrested. And here the protection to the debtor does not end, for he may epply to the Court, out of which the writ issues, who may make void the order of arrest, and order the plaintiff to pay costs. Although the powers of the Insolvent Act (as we shall pre sently see) are made more stringent in respect of debtors, and in particular of dishonest debtors yet there are powers and duties to be exercised by the Court which every honest debtor must hail with gratitude, and no reasonable creditor can reason ably object to. Among these arc the.following : The Insolvent Court will sit throughout the year. Prisoners confined on orders of Court for payment of money will be released as if in for a common debt. If a prisoner's health, or the crowded state of the gaol require it, the Court may grant the liberty of the rules to the unhealthy, or to any number of other prisoners. A petitioner may be set at large on giving bail to appear at the time of hearing, (unfortunately the Judges of the Court have found themselves obliged to hold that the bail must per sonally appear with the insolvent, and consequently this clause will be inoperative in many cases). An insolvent having petitioned, his case must be heard ; hitherto it has not been an unfrequent custom for a creditor to send in a prisoner's discharge' on the very day of hearing, and thus prevent the debtor obtaining the advantages of the Act. Two creditors have been known to conspire in this way, one has sent in the discharge, and a second has caused the man to be arrested immediately on his leaving the prison ; thus doubling his expenses and imprisonment. A poor prisoner may have an allowance out of his estate, and thus the burden of supporting him is removed from third persons, viz. the rate-payers of the county ; and in some cases his detaining creditor may be ordered to pay him four shillings a-week. Besides, a prisoner may, in some cases, have the expenses of his petition paid out of his effect!. There is a provision for paying these expenses, where prisoners have have no ef fects, out of certain funds in the court whether these funds can be made available for this purpose until years have passed. Thus we see, that an honest f man, meaning to remain in England, is not only protected . from arrest on mesne process, but is not prevented, according to . his means, maintaining a full and fair defence to any . action which . may be . brought against him ; and, if taken in execution, his imprisonment is abridged or lightened, his maintenance is bett er p rov id e d f or, a nd his discharge facilitated. So far for the benefits conferred on debtors, but now let us turn to those penalties which hang over the heads of those debtors, who are not disposed to act rightly. A man cannot now spend his property in a prison, and laugh at his creditors ; but if he will not petition within twenty-one days a creditor may petition the Insolvent Court, which may make an order vesting the whole of the debtor's property in the provisional assignee. Prisoners too, who have not acted bona fide, may be pu nished by a lengthened imprisonment. Former insolvent laws have provided for many instances of this kind, but it will be as well to set forth the instances re-enacted or enacted a fresh by this act. Withholding books or papers —making false entries —making no entries—altering books—giving undue prefe rence to any creditor—makin g away with property in any way, if done fraudulently, to Conceal his affairs, or to defeat the Act, will severally subject an insolvent prisoner to three years imprisonment within the walls. And, again, if such a prisoner has fraudulently contracted a debt, or fraudulently obtained time for payment of a debt, or vexatiously defended any action, or shall he in prison for da mages in crim. con., seduction, libel, cr malicious injury, he may be imprisoned twelve months, within the walls. Hitherto a creditor has bad to oppose a prisoner at his own expense ; nos the Court may order the expense to be paid out of the estate, and thus the chance of impunity, because a cre ditor will not prosecute, on account of the expense, is greatly lessened. There is a set off to this that the Court may order a vexatious creditor to pay costs to au insolvent. The Act guards against an insolvent's case being heard at a distance from his home, or the residence of the greater part of his creditors ; removing, th ere f ore, to a di stanc e, will be a dangerous experiment for an insolvent. Discharged insolvents are liable, too, to at all times , examined, a n d any i nso l vent omitting, w ith intention es,to de. fraud his creditors, property from his aehedule, to the amoun of 201., and those, who abet him, will ile.liable to three years' imprisonment. Did I stop here, 1 think that, on a fair brkknee of advan tages and disadvantages, the balance is dtcidedly'.in favour of creditors. But the Act go - es - further, and creditors' Posses% also the following advantages. A creditor may arrest a debtor at any stage of the action 7. heretofore be could only do so at the commencement. All a debtor's landed proper ty and interest inland, present and future, whether standing in his own name or the name of a trustee, of whatever deseription, in possessiot or coming to the debtor on the death of any person, or on the happening of any e ,„: . nt, his cash, bonds, billspand Securities for money ; his Government runt:: and shares in any company, may be takes in execution, which li s iteid ore was not the case. The signing of a jodgmenrwii; be in fact a mortgage of as creditor's interest in land, bearing at 4 per cent. per annum, and this not only upon lands in fee sir.2nle, but upotn those which he holds in tail, and whereof he could cLstroy the entail. Immediately on signing judgment, the debt in any circumstance will bear interest as above. This interest bears as well upon past as upon present debts, and judgment delAnt% in possession of, or likely to become possessed of property„ will do well to calculate what an eater up of property interest is.. I will not enter into the details for working an estate in flub Insolvent Court, although these may be generally considered as favourable to creditors. I think I have made out the case I intended, that the present law, while it is a boon for honest debtors, yet confers still greater advantages on creditors. But I cannot conclude my letter without pointing out the iniquity of the Bth clause. By this a man may make affidavit that a trader owes him any sum above 1001., and if the debtor does not put in bail (and his bail are confined to two per sons only) to answer an action, he will be held guilty of an act of bankruptcy. By the public Papers, it appears, that such an affidavit has been made for no less a sum than 20.0001. Happily the Act does. not provide before whom the affidavit shall be sworn, and na one has yet dared to act upon this clause, beyond making the affidavit before somebody. But if this had not been the case, although the party sworn against denies the debt of 20,0001., yet if the swearer could have proved the other owed him 100 E, the poor fellow must have been compelled to commit an act of bankruptcy. This clause is an attempt to re. enact a principle .04ippished in The case of arrest, and I strongly suspect, that it *as the baddy-worleof some moneycrat in the shape of a pretended amendment at a I*.'' stage of the Bill. It is said the Judges of the Insolvent Court are not favour able to the Bill. This is natural to men of experience and knowledge in the laws as the laws have been; it is irksome to go, as it were, again to school, and to learn what the laws now are. Queen street, Nov. 12. C. D. THE NEW SLAVE TRADE. When first " the Gladstone and Glenelg correspondence' on the Cooly traffic was brought to light, although we saw at once that it contained many dark and suspicious pas. sages interspersed amongst the letters published, we were yet of the number of those who maintained, that, if the Coolies were perfectly free agents in their transportation from India to Guiana, the Legislature ought to satisfy itself with passing certain protective enactments without going on to raise any barrier against the emigration of the natives of Hindostan to any quarter of the world where they thought they could improve their condition. Subsequent accounts - , however, of what was passing in Calcutta and other parts of India, tended to raise doubts and suspicions in our minds as to the free agency of the natives in the matter. These doubts and suspicions were more than confirmed by the contradictions in Mr. Robertson Gladstone's recent speech to the Conservative Tradesmen's Associa'ion. He proved too much, when he described " the free and happy Coolies" as guarded by constables, and kept in the hold in their passage down the Hooghly. Our imagination could not embrace th e idea o f these inmates of Paradise being forcibly prevented from making their escape to the Pandemonium from which they had been rescued. But, while we were yet pondering over, and labouring to unravel, these deep mysteries, the Asiatic Journal, of the present month, came to hand, filled with the most appaling and heart-thrilling details of the Cooly trade which it is possible to conceive. To make the supply of free emigrants! equal to the de— mand, the most horrible means have been adopted. Swarms of subaltern Cooly dealers have been hastened into existence, who, by deceit or violence, kidnap and carry away all the natives who fall into their hands. Force and fraud are used by turns. More than the horrors and the cruel- ties of the 'old Airic;nsiave - i;de;;;;Poken7f as things of daily occurrence. Whole districts are described as being depopulated to satisfy the avarice and cupidity of these human tigers, compared with whom the tiger of the jungle is a kind and tender animal. All Calcutta is in a ferment at the horrors which have been perpetrated. The papers are crammed with police reports exposing the villany of the wretches who collect " the free agents" for exportation. A public meeting has been held to call upon the Government to arrest the farther progress of this horrid traffic. The Bishop himself has considered it his duty to put himself at the head of this Christian work, and he is not a likely man to shrink or turn back from the undertaking. And we have no doubt, that, when the horrible and disgusting de- ;ails to which we have referred have been circulated through this country, the cry which has been raised in India will find a responsive voice in England, which will go on, in creasing and strengthening, until, " with the shout of a giant," it extends to the Cooly the same protection which it has achieved for the Negro. The battle of emancipa tion must again be fought. Where are its champions ? Liverpool Albion. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The fist meeting for the session was held on Monday evening, W. R. Hamilton, Esq., President, in the chair. A great variety of presents were announced, amongst which were donations fiom the Depots de la Marine et de la Guerre et Paris, as well as many foreign societies. Captain Washington announced that recent letters had been received from Mr. Schomburg, the Society's traveller in Guiana, who had arrived at Fort Joachim, on the Portuguese frontier, from whence it was his intention to proceed westward on the Orinoco. Advices have also been received from the Koordistan expedition, under Mr. Ainsworth, which on the 17th of September was at Constantinople, being about to de part for Asia Minor. Throughout his overland route Mr. Ainsworth had neglected no opportunity of making magnetic observations, a large collection of which was the first fruit of the journey. The first paper read was a description of the recent expedi. tion to the north-west coast of Australia, under the command of Lieutenants Gray and Lushington, which was communi cared by Lord Glenelg. The expedition left England on the 14th of July, in the ship Beagle, which, under the command of Captain Wickham, went out on the nautical survey of the north-western and other parts of the coast of Australia. The party reached the Cape of Good Hope on the 21st of Sep tember, where they freighted the Lynher, a sloop of 160 tons, and railed for Hanover-bay, which they reached on the 3d of Dec., taking with them a considerable flock of sheep and goats for diapersicn in the country. From hence the vessel was despatched to Timor to purchase ponies, of which twenty-six were procured. The expeditionary party, consisting of twelve persons, left the encampment at Hanover-bay on the Ist of February, and after a very difficult journey, the natural impe diments proving greater obstacles to their progress than the hostility of the natives, they returned to the same spot on the 15th of March. The most important result of the journey was the discovery of a large river, which they named Glenelg River, but which had no outlet to the sea, losing itself in man grove banks. In a hostile encounter with the natives, near the commencement of their journey, Lieutenant Grey was wounded in the hip, but this did not impede his progress. In the course Of their journey they found a great many curious paintings in caves, executed in a surprising way for a simple race, and which, with many other circumstances, seem to In dicate that they are a race of Asiatic origin. The next communication read was from Captain Wickham, giving an account of his naval survey of the coasts of this por tion of Australia. No opening was found in the shores of the bay, thereby setting at rest the question respecting Dampier's Land being an island. He also discovered a large river, to which he gave the name of Fitzroy River. Contrary to the reception of the former party by the natives, these were most friendly and hospitably entertained, invariably seeking com munication end intercourse with them. It was observed that the discovery of these two rivers, although of considerable magnitude, is still utterly insufficient to account for the drain age of this vast continent; and this interesting question, in stead of being at all pl ace d in a cl earer po i nt o f v i ew by the united exerti ons o f th ese t wo ex p e di t i ons, i s, if poss ibl e , a t this moment involved in deeper mystery than ever. Mr. Hoskins introduced to the notice of the meeting the subject of the expedition of the native of Dongolah up the White River, the principal source of the River Nile, under the supei intendance of an association of Egyptian travellers. It was intended that be should leave England as soon as possible this winter, with some gentlemen going overland to India, who would take charge of him as far as Koosir. Her e he would purchase a camel and merchandise, and travel as t! Dongolah merchant. He possesses the advantages of a good constitution and a good memory, and has been made a (painted with the compass and astrolabe, so that h e possesses many qualifications for the undertaking. The meeting adjourned to November 26. DEATH FROM FRlGHT.—Richard Vitler, fore man to Mr. Ponsford, builder, died yesterday from the effects of friEht. He was on the roof of the house in Oxford-square, Bay swa t er , when the late dreadful scaffold accident occurred, and, although not at all hurt, be when was so deli frighteneum ensued, that on hich r - turning home he took to his bed , rid, w terminated fatally. WANT OF A GRA P E-L A Nir.-ThC growers of grapes in this country seem not to be aware of the enormous inroads likely to be made on their profits by the importation of grapes from Spain and Portugal. We saw, yesterday, at a grocer's door in the Market-place, no less a quantity than 45 eat. of grapes just received. The grape-growers, like corn-growers, have indeed endeavoured to protect them theselvics by a duty which amounts to nearly 50 per cent. on the price paid to the grower in Spain. However, this heavy duty is found insufficient, as the fact we have stated shows. It is true that persons in the middle classes may have a handsome dessert upon their Sunday tables for a couple of shillings; but are their comforts to be promoted at the expense of the home grqe-growers? See what a destruction of capital invested in glass and flues, will take place !—Manchester Times.